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Have a look at our Autumn Newsletter 2025 for the latest news and upcoming events and workshops

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You can now watch all of our videos on our YouTube Playlist. Find out more about the projects we have helped to get trees in the ground and how we can support you.

Orchard Management Workshops 2026

Orchard

We're bringing back our popular orchard management workshops for this spring. There are five different locations including:

Click on the location name to book your place, and to find out more details. 

These workshops are being organised in partnership with Resilient Orchards. It will be led by expert F4C project officers Meike Weiser and Ben Norwood. Also, the brilliant Michelle Lawson, of Resilient Orchards who has incredible local knowledge, and has held many successful training sessions.

Each workshop will include talks on orchard planning and maintenance and a practical session on pruning and management techniques. 
There will be opportunities throughout the day to discuss your application or project proposal on an individual basis.  

Join In at the Big Newquay Tree Plant

Join us Wednesday 18th February for an exciting day of tree planting to create Trenance Community Woodland.  We’re transforming a half hectare green space into a thriving community woodland and resilient green space by planting 500 trees including an orchard that will benefit wildlife and biodiversity, increase tree canopy cover and create a beautiful space for everyone in Newquay to enjoy.
Register your interest in the Big Newquay Tree Plant and plant a personal tree as part of the new woodland that you can watch grow for years to come!
We'll also be including local schools, and working with the Friends of Trenance. 

Worthy Winners at the Cornwall Sustainability Awards 2025

The awards, organised by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Nature Partnership, celebrate sustainability across all sectors in Cornwall. Along with our partners, the Woodland Trust, F4C sponsored the Trees for Nature & Growth category at this years' awards. Many incredible projects put forward an application which made for a challenging time for the judges and resulted in a very close competition! 

Huge congratulations to the winners:

Farmers & Landholders
Winner:                         Screech Owl Sanctuary & Animal Park
Highly Commended:   Trefusis Estate

Urban & Community
Winner:                         St. Ives Community Orchard CIC 
Highly Commended:   United Downs Environment Group (UDEG)

These awards highlight the work of so many of the people that have planted trees for community benefit, to enhance production on farms, to tackle climate change and support nature recovery in Cornwall. Congratulations to everyone who entered, and to all our F4C projects for the work they are doing. 
Two of our farm projects were also winners in the Nature Friendly Farming category - Treveddoe Farm was Highly Commended and Presingoll Farm took the Winner trophy🏆 . 

Dates for this winter's Back Garden Forest FREE Tree Giveaways Announced

There have already been popular giveaways in Callington, Torpoint, Helston, Tintagel, Newquay, Camborne and Saltash this winter. 

Upcoming dates are:

  • Penzance: Saturday 17th January 2026, 10.30am-12.30pm, St Johns Hall, TR18 2QW
  • Perranporth & St.Agnes: Saturday 24th January 2026, 10.30am-12.30pm, Perranporth Library, TR6 0EP
  • Bodmin: Saturday 31st January 2026, 10.30am-12.30pm, Shire House Suite, PL31 2DQ
  • Redruth: Saturday 14th February 2026, 10.30am-12.30pm, Market Way and Redruth Library, TR15 2AU
  • Truro:  Saturday 21st February 2026, 10.30am-12.30pm, Truro Library, TR1 1EP
  • St. Austell:  Saturday 28th February 2026, 10.30am-12.30pm, St Austell Library, PL25 4LD

Come along to collect a free tree for your garden. There is a choice of six species, and you will be given information to help your tree grow. Bring a bag to take your tree home!

Blossom, fruit and nuts on the tree species available at the tree giveaways
These events are kindly part sponsored by WAX Events, Medequip and Aspects Holidays. 

Do you have medical equipment such as crutches or walkers that you no longer need? You can easily return this Medequip to recycle and reuse. 

Celebrating 5 Years of Forest for Cornwall

The team are celebrating 5 years of fantastic work across Cornwall. Over 1.6 million trees have now been planted in more than 1000 projects. There are is more than 500 hectares of planting in the pipeline for this winter. 

It's a double celebration this year as its the 50th anniversary of National Tree Week.
The team held a community get together at the site of the first F4C planting at Tincombe Park in Saltash. 
We were joined by members of Tree Saltash and the Friends of Tincombe Park, Cllr Loic Rich (Portfolio holder for Environment and Climate Change), Cllr Hilary Frank, and local residents to celebrate all that has been achieved in the last five years. There was a fascinating walk and talk around the park, free tree giveaway, willow weaving workshop and the opportunity to plant the next generation of trees.

Have a look at our latest film which shows the range of projects that so many have got involved in:

Spotlight on agroforestry

This winter has seen the planting of over 50 hectares of agroforestry projects. These combine tree planting with current farming production. It can be combined with both crops and livestock. It brings many benefits including:

  • shade
  • shelter
  • soil enhancement
  • alternative crops
  • flood prevention

At the end of March the team held a very popular agroforestry workshop at Rosuick Farm on the Lizard. This is the site for one of the agroforestry pilot projects which is being funded by Defra's Nature for Climate Fund. Many local farmers and producers joined us for the day. It included informative talks from:

  • local agroforestry practitioners
  • the national leads in agroforestry from the Forestry Commission and Environment Agency

Agroforestry workshop

Find out more about the brilliant work of the Community Tree Nurseries

We've captured some of the work of the community tree nurseries that are being supported with the help of the Woodland Trust Emergency Tree Fund. These nurseries are growing trees from locally collected seed with the help of volunteers and community groups. Have a look at these videos to learn more about the work at Bolghen Community Tree Nursery and Kehelland Trust.   

 

Latest Community Projects

Forest for Cornwall has been supporting local communities to plant trees in a variety of different ways. This has been done through the Woodland Trust funded 'Forest for My Place' project. These two new case study videos show the great work that has been happening:

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09/12/2025

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